Re: Do you regognize this motherboard?

Posted on 2017-04-17, 12:24

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by Baoran

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It probably has not been stored in a very good place considering how corroded that one screw is that is still in one of the holes of the motherboard. I suppose the main question is if it is still worth trying to rescue. I don't know if it is considered a good 486 motherboard or if it just a …

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Re: Do you regognize this motherboard?

Posted on 2017-04-17, 11:05

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by Baoran

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It is being sold for $24 and $8 for shipping, but I can try to offer less for it also. I'm just worried about it being sold as untested.

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Re: Do you regognize this motherboard?

Posted on 2017-04-17, 10:41

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by Baoran

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This is the only picture of chaintech 486SLB I was able to find online and it looks different. http://pcrebuilding.altervista.org/images/res … fa_p1140336.jpg

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Do you regognize this motherboard?

Posted on 2017-04-17, 10:07

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by Baoran

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I found untested 486 motherboard for sale. Do you recognize what model motherboard this is? Also I would appreciate if you would give me some advice how much it would be worth paying for. faad3f4637265da786e4a75cc1a31-orig.jpg d63c801fb8a07294f99e44b4287a5-orig.jpg 56886d990d012bb0ab4458d1ccae6-orig …

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Re: SB16 System Requirements.

Posted on 2017-04-16, 05:32

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by Baoran

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I found some info on that in this document. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/readings/hardware/SoundBlaster.pdf The information is on page 13. It says that the hardware supports 16bit sound through a 8bit DMA if you set both D and H parameters as the same 8 bit DMA channel number. and what …

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Re: Sound blaster awe64 value and older games.

Posted on 2017-04-16, 05:15

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by Baoran

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I am planning to build a slower system. Any idea how slow system those older titles need to be able to find the sound card?

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Re: Sound blaster awe64 value and older games.

Posted on 2017-04-15, 20:21

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by Baoran

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So the older games don't care about the blaster variable and the card always needs to be in irc 7?

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Re: Sound blaster awe64 value and older games.

Posted on 2017-04-15, 18:27

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by Baoran

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it is a pentium 2 and it does have win98 installed, but it boots to dos mode and hard drive volumes are formatted just for dos 6.22 originally. Would it make the game work if I removed windows and and installed just dos 6.22?

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Sound blaster awe64 value and older games.

Posted on 2017-04-15, 17:54

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by Baoran

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Is it possible to make awe64 value sound card to work in old dos games that only support basic sound blaster/adlib? I tried King's quest 5 game yesterday and it didn't find sound blaster in my system and returned to dos. My card is most likely a pnp model, because bios finds it as pnp when computer …

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Re: SB16 System Requirements.

Posted on 2017-04-15, 17:16

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by Baoran

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Thank you for the help. One more thing, does CT2290 use sbconfig/diagnose or ctcm/ctcu to configure the card?

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Re: Lubricating ISA slots?

Posted on 2017-04-14, 21:27

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by Baoran

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Perfect glide... Why does that sound so familiar?

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Re: SB16 System Requirements.

Posted on 2017-04-14, 17:58

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by Baoran

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the sb16 that I have is CT2290 which also seem to have IDE interface. Most of the games I would be playing on 286 would be ones that only have basic sound blaster support.

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SB16 System Requirements.

Posted on 2017-04-14, 17:47

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by Baoran

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The oldest sound card that I own is a sound blaster 16. I was thinking of building a 286 pc for old dos games. I read online the sb16 system requirements today and it said: IBM PC 386 or higher, or 100% compatibles VGA 5 MB of hard disk space for SB software MS-DOS 5.0 or higher, Windows 3.1 or …

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Re: Is this an EGA card?

Posted on 2017-04-14, 15:37

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by Baoran

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Here is a conversation I found about the RCA. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-19005.html

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Re: Is this an EGA card?

Posted on 2017-04-14, 13:00

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by Baoran

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Thanks. I bought the whole computer cheap and might get it late next week. I look forward to opening it for the first time and finding out what is inside.

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Re: Is this an EGA card?

Posted on 2017-04-14, 12:42

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by Baoran

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Those RCA might be for a monochrome monitor?

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Is this an EGA card?

Posted on 2017-04-14, 12:26

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by Baoran

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When I first saw the picture, my first thought that must be an EGA card, but later I started to doubt myself. I don't even know if you can recognize if something is an EGA card just based on the connectors and dip switches at the back of the computer. card.jpg It has the dip switches and 9 pin …

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Re: Old motherboard prices.

Posted on 2017-04-14, 10:53

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by Baoran

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I do have a lot of old computer parts. I just have not been collecting them for long. They are just parts from computers I had 20-30 years ago. Another thing is that if I were to sell something on ebay, should I just follow the prices I see for similar components or would that result as nobody …

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Old motherboard prices.

Posted on 2017-04-14, 10:34

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by Baoran

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When I am looking at old motherboards on ebay. The prices just seem really high. I'm talking about 286, 386, 486 and even socket 5 motherboards. Do people really pay $150-$200 from these or are the ones left just the ones that didn't sell? What is the normal price you have paid for these …

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Re: Jumpers on my 386 motherboard.

Posted on 2017-04-11, 07:12

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by Baoran

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Any ideas on what kind of jumper changes I need to make since I don't have any manual for the motherboard?

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